Dr. Roy S. Fluhrer Scholarship Fund

Please consider donating to the Dr. Roy S. Fluhrer Scholarship Fund. All donations are thru the Community Foundation of Greenville and are tax deductible. Donations can be made online at either: www.fineartscenter.net – Look for the donate button Or checks may be mailed to: Dr. Roy S. Fluhrer Scholarship Fund Greenville Community Foundation 630 E. Washington Street, Suite A Greenville, SC 29601 Thank you!

After thirty years of inspirational leadership, Dr. Roy Fluhrer has retired as the Director of the Greenville County Fine Arts Center. However, as Roy would always say in the schoolwide assemblies he used to rouse us to ever greater feats of artistry and community engagement, “It’s not the building that makes this place special. It’s the people inside the building.”

Dr. Fluhrer’s vision has always been tightly woven into the fabric of the school. He led the initiative to create the building that is now the FAC home, a work and performance space that celebrates every form of the arts from the moment a visitor or student walk through the front door to the furthest corners of the classrooms. It impressively reflects and facilitates the arts-based focus and economy of which Greenville is so justifiably proud.​

It is with this legacy in mind that a group of inspired arts educators, parents, appreciators and practitioners have banded together to create a scholarship in Dr. Fluhrer’s name, to be awarded annually to a student who has demonstrated leadership and artistic fearlessness in their time at the FAC. In order to make this scholarship meaningful to the chosen student recipient, and to maintain it in perpetuity, we have set a target of raising $75,000 to act as a foundational source from which we can draw for the scholarship each year.

To do this, we need your help. The Fine Arts Center has touched many thousands of students over the years, whatever donation you can afford; you will be ‘paying it forward’ to the next generation of students. A $250 dollar or above donation will earn your name listed on a commemorative plaque to be displayed in the lobby.

Please consider helping us with this effort to honor Dr. Fluhrer and to further the career of the future generations of artists, arts administrators and arts educators.